COUNCIL BY-ELECTIONS 05.09.24

With seven by-elections having taken place on Thursday, it seems as good a time as any to resume our weekly by-election report.  With a backlash against Starmer's nanny state already in progress, local election results can help us form a bigger picture as to how public opinion is shifting.

Three of the seats up for grabs were in Camden, two of which are situated in Keir Starmer's constituency of Holborn and St Pancras.  Turnout in one ward - Kilburn - was just 13 per cent.  Labour held all three, but with a reduced vote share.  In Camden Square and Kentish Town South there were big swings from Labour to Muslim independents, continuing a trend set in the general election and sure to cause Labour huge electoral problems in their old inner city and mill town heartlands as Britain's demographics continue to shift rapidly.

Labour also held a seat in Cheshire, but again with a reduced vote share thanks to a huge swing to Reform UK.  The pattern was repeated in Manchester where they held with a reduced share that went mostly to the Green candidate.  They gained an independent seat in south Wales, but lost a seat in North Yorkshire to the Conservatives, where the swing away from Labour was distributed across various newcomers, but mostly went to the victorious Tory candidate.

Camden Square, Camden London Borough Council

Lab: 465 (47.7%) -27.8%

Ind: 164 (16.8%) New

Grn: 133 (13.7%) New

LDem: 89 (9.1%) -4.9%

Ind: 75 (7.7%) New

Con: 48 (4.9%) -5.5%

Lab HOLD

Kentish Town South, Camden London Borough Council

Lab: 674 (46.8%) -12.0%

Grn: 327 (22.7%) +1.1%

Ind: 289 (20.1%) New

Con: 77 (5.4%) -2.4%

LDem: 72 (5.0%) -3.0%

Lab HOLD

Kilburn, Camden London Borough Council

Lab: 583 (51.5%) -15.2%

Con: 253 (22.3%) +4.2%

Grn: 198 (17.5%) (New

LDem: 98 (8.7%) -6.5%

Lab HOLD

Crewe West, Cheshire East Council

Lab: 553 (43.3%) -18.5%

Ref: 333 (26.1%) New

Con: 217 (17.0%) -0.7%

Ind: 109 (8.5%) -11.8%

Grn: 63 (4.9%) New

Lab HOLD

Baguley, Manchester City Council

Lab: 623 (46.9%) -15.9%

Grn: 282 (21.2%) +8.6%

Con: 243 (18.3%) -1.6%

LDem: 110 (8.3%) +2.4%

SDP: 71 (5.3%) New

Lab HOLD

Bedlinog & Trelewis, Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council

Lab: 411 (48.8%) +16.1%

Ind: 314 (37.2%) New

Plaid: 83 (9.8%) New

Con: 24 (2.8%) -2.3%

Ind: 11 (1.3%) New

Lab GAIN from Ind

Longbeck, Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council

Con: 384 (37.9%) +14.9%

Lab: 206 (20.4%) -19.4%

Ind: 119 (11.8%) New

Ref: 108 (10.7%) New

Ind: 105 (10.4%) New

Ind: 50 (4.9%) New

LDem: 40 (4.0%) New

Con GAIN from Lab

Abbreviations

Lab = Labour

Grn = Green

LDem = Liberal Democrat

Con = Conservative

Ref = Reform UK

SDP = Social Democratic Party

Plaid = Plaid Cymru

Ind = Independents and local groups

WHO IS THE PM, KEIR?

Not for the first time at PMQs, Keir Starmer referred to his opposite number as 'Prime Minister' on Wednesday.  However, this time he called Rishi Sunak PM no less than five times.  His frontbenchers didn't bat an eyelid as he repeatedly referred to Sunak as 'Prime Minister' and strangely there appeared to be little response from the opposition benches, either.

It wasn't until his fifth PM reference that Starmer corrected himself, watch the clip below.

Contrast yesterday's bizarre performance from Starmer to the last time he referred to Sunak as PM - just two weeks ago.  There was much laughter as Starmer corrected himself with the quip: "Old habits die hard".  Watch below.

Is he subconsciously blaming Sunak and the Tories for the nanny state tyranny to come...

PRITI FALLS IN ROUND ONE

Priti Patel has been eliminated from the Tory leadership election in the first round of MPs' voting.  Patel finished bottom of the pile in the first of five ballots held to determine Rishi Sunak's successor.  Wild card entry Mel Stride finished fifth, one vote behind the globalists' preferred candidate Tom Tugendhat.  Robert Jenrick topped the poll, six votes ahead of Kemi Badenoch.

A second round of voting will take place on Monday, assuming no-one drops out voluntarily before then.  The distribution of Patel's 14 votes will decide who is eliminated next and with just 12 votes between Stride and Jenrick, mathematically it could be anyone.

Following the Tory conference at the end of this month, a further two rounds of MPs' voting will reduce the field to two candidates.  Only after that do grassroots members get a say.  The system is hardly democratic, with the final line-up decided by 121 MPs - three of whom did not even register a vote in the first round.

TOON TUESDAY #21

A bumper selection this week as mainstream media cartoonists had a field day with Sir Squeaky.  Brexit betrayal, smoking bans and missing Thatcher portraits were the talk of the toons, with a hint of Oasis thrown into the mix...

Matt Pritchett for The Daily Telegraph

Patrick Blower for The Daily Telegraph

Patrick Blower for The Daily Telegraph

Graeme Bandeira for The Yorkshire Post

Ben Jennings for The Guardian

Christian Adams for The Evening Standard

Nicola Jennings for The Guardian

Dave Brown for The Independent

Andy Davey for The Sunday Telegraph

Matt Pritchett for The Daily Telegraph

Morten Morland for The Times

Stanley McMurtry for The Mail on Sunday

MEME MONDAY #2

The nanny state continued its assault on our freedom this past week, testing the water with talk of an expansion to the smoking ban imposed by the last Labour government.  The establishment just cannot close down our pubs quickly enough!

Starmer also deployed the dreaded 'reset' word this week, with regards to our relationship with Europe.  He tried to assure democrats that Brexit was not under threat, but this was coming from a man who spent three years trying to overturn the Leave mandate and led Corbyn up the garden path to electoral oblivion in the process (and then promptly ejected him from the party after succeeding him as leader).

A discarded painting, raving Rayner, phoney feminist agenda and Notting Hill carnage* were also featured in Karl's latest memes.

* Two victims have since died

Mon 26 Aug - 22 Facebook shares.  The algorithm doesn't like X content

Tue 27 Aug - 200 shares

Wed 28 Aug - 315 shares

Thurs 29 Aug - 291 shares

Sat 31 Aug - 165 shares

Sun 1 Sept - 344 shares

Sun 1 Sept - 358 shares

Feel free to save and share our work, without alterations.  Thank you.

A TALE OF TWO RAVERS

Michael Gove and Angela Rayner hit Ibiza two years apart

The political bias of Mirror Group Newspapers has never been in any doubt and it will come as no great surprise to see how Mirror coverage differed so greatly between the Ibiza exploits of a Tory and a Labour MP.

In August 2022 The Mirror reported on Michael Gove's dance-floor antics in Ibiza.  Gove's dreadful dance moves were not the issue for the left-wing rag - they cried foul that he was mocking the cost of lockdown crisis enveloping the nation (ironically a consequence of the actions that The Mirror enthusiastically supported throughout the scamdemic).

The news report refers to Gove's dismissal from the Cabinet almost two months previously, consigning him to the backbenches from where he was clearly no longer involved in government.  Compare and contrast to The Mirror's recent report detailing the current Deputy Prime Minister's dance antics in Ibiza...

There are no political points scored at any point during the Rayner article.  There is no mention of the cost of lockdown crisis, rising energy bills or scrapped winter fuel payments.  Two tier reporting in action.

TOON TUESDAY #20

Tony Blair was elected in 1997 to the sound of the pop song 'Things Can Only Get Better'.  In 2024, Keir Starmer is telling us that things can only get worse!  This week's selection of toons are lifted from mainstream newspapers and suggest that Starmer and co are not going to get a free pass in the MSM...

Steve Bright for The Sun

Christian Adams for The Evening Standard

Steve Lillie for The Guardian

LONDON STABFEST DAY TWO

Day two of the Notting Hill Carnival made the previous day look tame by comparison.  By the time the Metropolitan Police issued its final update at 23:00 on Monday, there had been 230 arrests during the day - compared to 90 on Sunday.  A further five people were stabbed, up from three on Sunday.  35 police officers were assaulted, up from 15.  The full breakdown of the offences can be seen in the post below.

Despite the politicisation of the Met and all the two tier policing surrounding certain protests - the left get a free hand, the right get carted away - they were clearly exasperated by the Notting Hill violence.  That was laid bare in an update from the Deputy Assistant Commissioner - Ade Adelekan - issued at 11:03 on Monday, prior to the fresh violence and referencing what had happened on Sunday.

Adelekan, himself a black male, used the word 'tired' three times in a hard hitting third paragraph.  DAC Adelekan appears to speak from the heart, and undoubtedly for many officers, when he writes that police are tired of the violence 'every year'.  He precedes that by underlining the depravity of what is supposed to be a 'family day' when a 32-year-old female is in critical condition after being stabbed in the company of her child.  

What of the Mayor of London, you may ask?  Surely, such an outspoken city leader would have some condemnation for the violence taking place on his streets?

Nope.  In fact, since Sunday he has not even mentioned Notting Hill on either of his X accounts.  It appears that his 'diversity is strength' mantra simply cannot and must not be subverted by the reality on the streets.  His mythical doctrine is immune to the truth.

MEME MONDAY #1

Given recent acts of censorship by Facebook, we've decided to publish all our memes to this site for the foreseeable future.  We will do so each Monday, featuring all memes posted to our Facebook and GETTR accounts from the previous Monday-Sunday.  This will give followers easy access to our memes - many of which are shadow banned by Facebook's algorithm - including those that are taken down altogether.

Feel free to right click and save any of these memes - share away as you please - but we respectfully ask that you do not alter the memes and under no circumstances remove our watermark or obscure it.

The number of Facebook shares will be included under each meme, correct at the time of publication.  The stark difference between the circulation of certain memes exposes the algorithm, which is designed to suppress content that deviates from the approved globalist narrative.

Mon 19 Aug - 30 Facebook shares.  Even without mentioning the Tates by name,
this post was clearly shadow banned - either by facial recognition or use of key
words such as 'Islamist', 'rape' and 'terrorist'

Tues 20 Aug - 375 shares

Thurs 22 Aug - 386 shares

Fri 23 Aug - 75 shares.  If we assume that the word 'fuck' is targeted by the
algorithm, that would be perfectly acceptable in a decent society.  Facebook is, after
all, visible to all.  However, when one sees the level of depraved content Facebook
deems acceptable for children, a restriction on curse words is rendered absurd

Fri 23 Aug - 664 shares

Sat 24 Aug - 28 shares.  X content never fairs well on Facebook, for obvious
reasons

Sun 25 Aug - 9 shares.  Crap meme or use of key word 'Trump'?

Sun 26 Aug - 600 shares

NOTTING HILL STABFEST 2024

'Diversity is strength' has become the Orwellian cry of the establishment and the left, even as the multi-cultural project continues to churn up daily examples of murder and misery.  One of the biggest purveyors of the diversity myth is the current Mayor of London, which is perhaps not surprising at all.  London is now such a diverse city that its native born English inhabitants are a minority, while actual Bow Bell Cockneys have been driven from the East End and replaced by a largely Asian demographic.

On any given day Khan can be found on his favourite social media platform - X - waxing lyrical about some cultural, religious or historical event that sometimes - maybe two or three times a year - pertains to something Anglo-Saxon and/or Christian in origin.  This bank holiday weekend lent him a prime opportunity to promote multi-culturalism, or to put it more accurately - to promote a culture other than the native British.  Over the weekend he used his personal X account to post directly about the Notting Hill Carnival twice, in addition to five retweets.  On the Mayor of London account he wrote a further three posts and retweeted four others.  A selection of his tweets can be found below.

His Notting Hill love-in was preceded by multiple tweets about the Transatlantic slave trade and the unveiling of a hideous memorial to honour its victims.

While Khan may appear resolute and sincere in his embrace of diversity, the very fact that he blocks commenting on any of his posts suggests that he is acutely aware that there remains huge opposition to the genocide project.  If one has to censor everyone in order to protect an idea, the truth about the 'utopia' must be very dark indeed.

Indeed.

The Metropolitan Police issued various updates about London's annual stabfest on Sunday, culminating in a shocking litany of violence and criminality posted at 21:00 on Sunday night.  Who knows what other criminal acts followed into the night...

This is why Khan censors his X accounts.  His utopia of diversity and multi-culturalism is built on deceit.  No matter how many times he repeats the line: 'Diversity is strength' - there will be ten-fold examples to show that diversity is disastrous.  48 hours prior to the Notting Hill stabfest there occurred perhaps the most fitting and devastating example yet.

On Friday night in the German city of Solingen, a festival was held during which eight people were stabbed - three fatally - by a Syrian migrant.  The theme of the festival?  It was dubbed the 'Festival of Diversity'.

JENKYNS GOES OFF ON SUCCESSOR

Andrea Jenkyns and Mark Sewards

Former Tory MP Andrea Jenkyns has lashed out at her Labour successor in a lengthy tirade on social media.  The 327 word statement, posted to her Facebook and X accounts, is headed 'classless new MP'.  Her successor Mark Sewards appears to have drawn her ire by visiting her former constituency office and mocking her outgoing staff.  She also claims that he emailed her a few days following her defeat, asking her if she knew of 'any offices'.  He does sound like a darling, doesn't he?

The full statement can be seen below.

Jenkyns defeated Ed Balls at the 2015 general election with a wafer thin majority of 422.  She significantly increased her majority in 2017, and again in 2019 where it stood at a very healthy 11,267.  Her Morley and Outwood seat was abolished this year due to boundary changes and redrawn as Leeds South West and Morley.  Sewards actually garnered fewer votes than Labour got in the previous seat, but the collapsing Tory vote and Reform surge meant that he secured an 8,423 majority over Jenkyns.  A reduced turnout probably didn't help her cause, either.

Sewards - yet another law graduate - describes himself as a 'progressive' in a campaign video from 2017, when he stood as the candidate for Harrogate and Knaresborough.  Ironically, in that video he also describes how Labour would 'make sure that pensioners' incomes would stay as they are, if not improve'.  Eight years later, he won't want to be reminded of that pledge.

Sewards' 2017 election video can be seen below.

It's worth noting Sewards' attitude towards Brexit.  Like most of his comrades he gravitates towards a second referendum, in line with Keir Starmer's strategy that he later imposed on Corbyn ie. to hold a referendum on the Brexit deal with retaining EU membership as the default option in the event of a no vote.

Little wonder then that this weasly looking man is taking great delight in rubbing staunch Brexiteer Jenkyns' nose in it...

TOON TUESDAY #19

Two years after the establishment tried and failed to whip up some more viral fear with monkeypox, that virus is back in the news - with a rebrand.  You see, they want you to think that 'mpox' is something new and dreadful, but it's just monkeypox with the animal reference dropped.  It's even less deadly than Covid, but they're already pushing a vaccine to 'keep you safe'.

The following cartoon was published by Bob Moran, formerly of The Telegraph, back in 2022 when the first 'scare' was being pushed.  We've updated it for 2024 in somewhat crude, but effective fashion.  The cartoon features the world's most prominent Covid and vax-pusher Tony Fauci as the monkey...

FACEBOOK CENSOR RIOT QUOTE

It's been less than six weeks since Zuckerberg's thought police carried out their biggest strike yet on BTLP and they have struck again.  On Monday we were both met with warnings from Facebook in relation to a post we shared a day earlier, quoting Labour councillor Ricky Jones (see below).  This was flagged as 'something that could encourage violence' or be 'a direct threat to public safety'.  As any moron could see, quoting Cllr Jones was not designed to promote his words, but expose them.  We cannot speak for AI, but a human moderator would have known this.

Following the July 5th assault on our back-up page, we reverted back to our original Facebook page for the first time in three years.  The reason we established a back-up page and shifted content to it was for the very reason of repeated censorship strikes, that can lead to harsher measures.  Indeed, Karl now has some minor restrictions placed on his Facebook activity following this latest strike.

The 'offending' image in its entireity can be seen below, featuring Cllr Jones pictured alongside Angela Rayner and his vile quote...

TOON TUESDAY #18

The rapid demographic transformation of Britain and western Europe is now known the world over, as shown here by two cartoons - one from American artist Jimbob and another from Israeli artist Elad Shmueli...

'CUT THROAT' COUNCILLOR CHARGED

A Labour councillor has been arrested and charged with encouraging violent disorder, following a speech he gave at an 'anti-racist' demonstration in London on Wednesday evening.  Cllr Ricky Jones spent Thursday night in custody, after a clip of him circulated online in which he described those behind recent violence as 'Nazi fascists' who should have their throats cut and got rid of.  He made a throat slitting gesture with his finger as he made the statement, which was met with cheers and applause by those around him.

Cllr Jones, of Dartford Borough Council, was speaking at a protest in Walthamstow.  Some of the protesters around him were holding Socialist Worker placards which bore the slogan: 'Smash fascism and racism - by any means necessary' - in itself arguably an incitement to violence.  Cllr Jones may well have taken inspiration from those words.  A woman in an orange high-vis vest standing next to him looked initially taken aback by his throat cutting message, but quickly began cheering, clapping and laughing.  Cllr Jones then took up a chant of 'Free, free Palestine'.

The clip can be seen below.

The Metropolitan Police confirmed his arrest in a tweet, saying that 'a man in his 50s' was being held 'on suspicion of encouraging murder and for an offence under the Public Order Act'.  He has since been charged with a lesser count of 'encouraging violent disorder' and appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Friday afternoon.  The case was adjourned pending a pre-trial hearing on September 6th and Cllr Jones was remanded in custody.

Cllr Jones has represented the Princes ward in Dartford since 2019.  He was suspended by Labour on Thursday and a statement from Dartford Labour described his behaviour as 'totally unacceptable'.